人教课标版高中英语选修8Unit4readingPPT课堂课件(44页)

My Fair Lady Have you seen the film? If you have, did you like it? Have a discussion and give reasons.
Main characters
Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herself. Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society.
3. The flower girl wanted to become ________.
A. a duchess B. a shop assistant C. a lady D. a lady’s maid
4. The flower girl was worried when she found Higgins making notes because __.
selling flowers ambitious
Eliza Doolittle
★ When she sees Professor Higgins 3. ____________, she feels worried because she takes him for a(n) 4. ___________ in
dialects
Read through the act one and choose the best answer. 1. This text is mainly about the first experience of Eliza meeting with ____. A. Professor Higgins B. Colonel Pickering C. Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering D. a gentleman
policeman
thief terrible
gutter
Professor Higgins
phonetics ★ He is an expert in 8. _______, who thinks that the quality of a
person’s English decides his / her 9. ________ in society. ★ He can know where a person is from by what he / she 10.
three
India
Colonel Pickering
officer ★ He is a(n) 14. ______ in the army and later a friend of
Higgins’. ★ He studies many Indian 15. ________ and comes to England to make Higgins’ acquaintance.
人教课标 高二 选修 8
Unit 4
皮格马利翁与伽拉忒亚
Have you ever heard of the “Pygmalion Effect ”?
心理学家莫顿（Robert Merton）将 此现象名之为“自我实现的预言”。这 也就是在萧伯纳名剧《窈窕淑女》(My Fair Lady)中为人所熟知的“皮格马利 翁效应”（Pygmalion effect）。
taking notes disguise who wants to catch her as a(n) 5. ______.
★ Her 6. ________ English will make her live in the 7. _______ all her life, according to Professor Higgins.
When he finishes the statue, he falls in love with it and goes to the Greek goddess, Aphrodite, to ask her to make the statue into a real woman.
His wish is granted.
disguise
5. Eliza greeted to the gentleman in order to _______.
A. ask him to buy some flowers from her B. talk with him C. ask him to teach her D. beg some money from him
The author —— George Bernard Shaw An Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater.
Immaturity Widowers’ Houses Pygmalion His main works: Man and Superman (1902), Major Barbara (1905)
Read the text carefully and fill in
the blanks.
Eliza Doolittle
★ She is very poor and makes a living by 1. _____________ and is 2. _________ to improve herself.
In Shaw’s play, Professor Higgins is a man who does not like women either and is very rude to them. For a bet he agrees to teach a poor young woman so that she can be passed off as a rich lady in high class society. So, like Pygmalion, Higgins creates a perfect young woman. Both the statue and Eliza depend on their creator for their new life.
This play by George Bernard Shaw (萧 伯纳) is an adaptation of a Greek story. Do you know this story?
Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman.
9. From the last sentence of the play, we
can conclude that Eliza felt ___ about
what Higgins said.
A. confident B. optimistic
C. certain
D. doubtful
The social position of each character influences the way they behave to each other. Generally speaking, people are more polite to those who they think are of a higher social class (H) and less polite to those they consider are members of a lower class (L). Is this true of the characters in Shaw’s play? Give your evidence in the chart below.
A. she thought she did something wrong B. she thought she didn’t have the right to
sell flowers C. she didn’t want Higgins to write down
what she said D. she thought Higgins was a policeman in
6. Why Eliza began to cry? Because _____.
A. she thought Professor Higgins would arrest him
B. the gentleman didn’t give her some money
C. Pickering beat and scolded her D. there was no reason
The Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to take responsibility, they probably will. If you expect them not to even try, they probably won’t.
like a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party in 12. ______
months, a lady’s maid or a shop assistant. ★ He was going to 13. ______ to meet Colonel Pickering.
2. Which of the following can best describe Henry Higgins?
A. Kind and polite. B. Impatient and anxious. C. Self-important and confident. D. Unsure and generous.
Read the text quickly and complete its main idea.
The play is mainly about a poor 1. _f_lo_w__e_r_ girl who is lucky to come across a professor who might help her to 2. _i_m_p_r_o_v_e_ her life.
_____. ★ He thinks if taught by him to speak properly, Eliza Doolittle
position
says
Professor Higgins
may become a(n)
11. ___________ lady.
upper class ★ He thinks Eliza Doolittle can be changed into a woman
7. Professor Higgins believed that he could judge a person by _______. A. his appearance B. his action C. his conversation D. his manners
8. From the text, we can infer that Professor Higgins is a man described below EXCEPT _________. A. he doesn’t care about money B. he is an expert in phonetics C. he is proud D. he is greedy